The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1887-01-15
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THERE is no end Of the year like the
dividend
The next Connecticut Legislature will
contain lib farmers.
A SCHUYLER, Neb., man ate eighty-six
oysters at one sitting.
A BOY has been born in Kansas with eyes
in the back of his head.
A GouRD in Barren County, KY, holds
twelve and half gallons.
MORMON elders are making many con-
verts in Eastern Mississippi.
The cold weather in Florida causes
alarm about the orange crop.
THERE are 100 colored men in Washing
ton who are worth $4,000 each.
A TEXAS preacher predicts that the world
will come to an end in ten years.
LOUISIANA now aspires to be the great
producing State Of the Union.
THE new year opened bright with prom
ises for the plumbers and coal dealers.
NEW YORK CITY drinks 100000 barrels
of beer every year, at cost of S3S, ,4OO,0 900.
KANSAS CRY claims to have population
CT 1872 900, and including her suburbs 190,.
0OO
A CARLOAD Of hickory nuts has been
shipped from Blissfeld, Mich, to Califor.
MIA.
The red-nosed man, during the recent
cold snap, was not regarded with suspi-
cion.
In the East there is practically nothing
left of the custom of making New Years
calls.
The grave and monument Of Oliver Gold
smith in London are in condition Of sad
neglect.
Mrs. MCCLELLAN, widow of the General,
and her daughter have gone to Italy for
the winter.
SENATOR KENNA recently gave dinner
at which he skillfully carved whole
roasted deer.
THERE are II, ,166 newspapers and period
icals of all sorts published regularly in the
United States.
A NEW HAVEN Comm man has brought
suit for 5000 damages against widow
who Tilted him.
THERE are garlands Of fame waiting for
the man who shall invent a millionaire's
will that wills
KANSAS led all the States in the Union
last year in regard to the number of miles
of railroad built.
The reports from ten Southern States
show an increase in the iron output, since
1880, of 565,2OO tons.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND shook hands with
three thousand persons at the New Years
reception at the White House.
The cost of postage stamps to the Gov
ernment, covering every thing, including
delivery, is s6 99p per thousand.
THERE are signs that the tithe war in
Wales, so far from dying natural death,
is really gathering fresh vigor.
The Italian people are about to erect a
monument to Garibaldi on the Janiculum,
in Rome, to cost 100000 francs.
HIRAM P. REvELs, the first colored man
elected to the United States Senate, is now
q well-to-do farmer in Mississippi.
In no one year since the beginning Of
our Government have so many prominent
Government officials died as in 1886.
A NEW YORK physician braves the wrath
of society by declaring that sealskin
sacques are very unhealthy garments.
FROM far-away Egypt it is announced
that Ksssala has been relieved. This is
cheering We trust Kassala is better now.
ACCORDING to the dispatches of the past
few days, the leading question seems to
have been: "Has Secretary Lamar lost his
Holtw
"JIM CUMMINGS" will be able to study
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at the Missouri Penitentiary for the next
seven years.
IT is reported that enterprising farmers
in Kansas have sent to Alabama for cotton
seed to experiment with the great staple
in their climate.
MozART's tomb Is as unknown as that OF
Moses. But his monument will be placed
next to the tombs of Schubert and Bee
thoven, at Vienna.
The st. Louis Republican says that it is
not exactly the fair thing that Michigan
should have three United States Senator'S
Jones should resign.
THE last book that General Logan read
was the biography of General R. L. Lee
He finished the book the day before his
fatal sickness began.
LORD TENNYsoN persists in his determi
nation to write poem to the Battenbere
baby. All England seems to be down or
the poor little princelet.
DREssMAKERs Of New York complain o1
their long hours and low wages, and de
nounce the ''bargain counters" as among
the causes of these evils.
COMMISSIONER CoLMAN vigorously pro
tests against violation by the Illinois
Live Stock Commission of the rules relat
ing to pleuro-pneumonia.
A WIDOW in Oakland, CAL, has sued q
newspaper for libel because in its obitusr!
notice of her husband it spoke Of his hav
ing ''gone to happier home"
BE of good heart, ye who have turned
J over a new leaf. 1t is difficult to keep faitl
the first few days Of your good resolutions
but it will be easier after awhile.
SPoRTsMEN will be glad to know that tn,
Wisconsin Legislature is likely this winte
to enact a more stringent law protecting
wild ducks during the spring season.
THE latest fashionable fad is for tn
young women TO industriously eat pepper
mint candy at the theaters They evidentl,
intend to get even with their clove-chewin,
escorts.
, DR,W. H. HALE, an Edinburgh physician
who is travelling in this country, has a can
which he says cost $780, The head con
tains over three pounds of eighteen kara
goia, and is mounted with sixty-dve dis